Tag: obamacare
Stonewall sparked much more than the gay rights movement & you probably had no...
When the Stonewall riots erupted during the steamy pre-dawn hours of June 28, 1969, they quickly transformed what had been a small but longstanding push for queer equality into a mass movement. Multiple organizations were born in the wake of street protests triggered by the police raid of a Mafia-owned gay bar in New York City’s Greenwich Village.
It’s tempting to portray what came next as a march of relentless progress, but that characterization ignores the episodic nature of social...
Trump admin proposed rule would eliminate health care protections for transgender people
Roger Severino, director of the HHS Office for Civil Rights, said that the change would eliminate language put in place as part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA, also known as Obamacare) that defined "sex" to include gender identity.'When Congress prohibited sex discrimination, it did so according to the plain meaning of the term, and we are making our regulations conform," Severino said in a statement. "We have concluded in our most recent filing with the court that discrimination on...
